And so it begins....

As I am writing this I can't believe it has been 9 years since I first started going out with Colm and almost 5 years since he asked me to marry him.
You are probably wondering what has taking us so long to set a date. Well let me explain...

6 years ago I was a student in university studying Interactive Multimedia Design. I was living during the week in Belfast and studying in Jordanstown and at the weekend I was coming home to my family, my part-time job and my boyfriend. Typical right?

It didn't last long and over the New Year in 2007 I found out that at 18 I was pregnant. Not my plan but I grew up around kids all my life and I while I was nervous about having a baby I was also excited.

Mya came along on 27th October 2007 and the moment she came into our lives we fell in love with her. From the day she was born she had her own personality and she definately knew how to keep us on our toes.

The following February Colm and I took a break to Amsterdam for a few days and while we were away Colm asked me to marry him. I was so thrilled and like every girl I immediately started to plan our wedding but there was one thing stopping us - money.

I was a student and Colm was an apprentice electrician. Not exactly rolling in it. So the plans were put on hold - as least for a few years until we were more financially stable. Since we had a child together and both lived with our parents we decided that the first thing we should do was to move in together so we could be a proper family and raise our little girl together.

So I graduated my degree in 2011 and got a job in marketing in a retail company close to home. I loved my job and for the first time Colm and I were in a position where a wedding was possible.

But by now Mya was 4 years old and in my mind that was a huge age gap for siblings. I have a big sister who is two years older than me and while we killed each other growing up we are very very close now and I wanted Mya to have that with a sister or brother.

So when we sat down to talk about the wedding we decided that we wanted another baby more. So on October 17th our little girl Sienna was born.

So there we were, living together with two children and good jobs so what was next? A wedding....

I have always wanted to start a blog and this seemed like the perfect thing to write about, the planning, booking, budgeting and arranging of our wedding.

I know there are plenty of blogs out there were people are doing the exact same thing but living in Ireland there aren't too many that I can relate to...

So here we are...